Preface

Python is probably one of the few programming languages which is both
simple and powerful. This is good for both and beginners as well as
experts, and more importantly, is fun to program with. This book aims
to help you learn this wonderful language and show how to get things
done quickly and painlessly - in effect 'The Perfect Anti-venom to your
programming problems'.

Who This Book Is For

This book serves as a guide or tutorial to the Python programming
language. It is mainly targeted at newbies. It is useful for experienced
programmers as well.

The aim is that if all you know about computers is how to save text files,
then you can learn Python from this book. If you have previous programming
experience, then you can also learn Python from this book.

If you do have previous programming experience, you will be interested in
the differences between Python and your favorite programming language - I
have highlighted many such differences. A little warning though, Python is
soon going to become your favorite programming language!